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Mexican Tourism: Export Growth and Structural Change since 1970

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Michael Clancy
Michael Clancy*
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University of Hartford
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Abstract

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Over the past three decades, tourism has become integral to the Mexican economy. Mexico easily leads Latin America in tourism exports, the provision of tourist-related services to foreigners visiting the country. Today tourism also serves as the second-largest employer in Mexico and ranks consistently among the top three earners of foreign exchange. This study traces the origin of Mexico's tourism boom by examining state policies and private-sector activity during the last thirty years. It also presents data on distributional patterns associated with tourism in an effort to evaluate Mexico's tourism record within the larger context of development.

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Research Reports and Notes
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , 2001 , pp. 128 - 150
Copyright
Copyright © 2001 by the University of Texas Press

Footnotes

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I would like to thank Mary Geske, Greg White, and the anonymous LARR reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions on earlier versions of this report. Thanks also to Michael Barnett and Leigh Payne for guidance on the larger project that helped generate this essay. All errors remain my own.

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